IT 364 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dolce Stil Novo, Katabasis, Courtly Love
1 Mar 2019
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Vernacular language you learn from your parents (italian: gram[m]atica latin, dante wrote the divine comedy in vernacular. The three crowns of italian literature dante, petrarch and boccaccio. Virgil, the aeneid shown a couple of times in dante"s inferno: trojan war, founder of rome. Dolce stil novo style of writing of vernacular language. Contrapasso punishment fits the crime: canto 5, swept around in wind because they were swept off their feet in the moment. Courtly love poetry singers who write about beauty of the lady of the court: francesca is writing courtly love poetry. Galeotto short hand term for a pimp: tells guinvere to kiss lancelot. Ineffability unspeakable, transcends the power of languages: dante says he cant explain the horror he saw in canto 28, sinners being sliced open. Mimesis imitation, literature or arts ability to imitate or replicate the real world: seeing lucifer and his description, three heads, chewing sinners, he is so life-like it imitates real life.
